, 1887-11-12
AN EXPERTS OPINION.
Geo. L. Aggers On the Carbon
County Oil Fields.
The Products Superior to the Penn
syIvania Output.
The Northwestern to Reach the
Oil Fields Next Spring.

you can chronicle the fact that
the oil fields of Wyoming are more extern
sive and will prove more profitable to the
owners than the petroleum deposits of the
keystone state, said Geo. L. Aggers, the
oil expert to a LEADER representative last
evening. The gentleman is a recognized
authority upon this subject, being a prac-
teal geologist and having operated in the
Pennsylvania oil fields for several years.
At present he is s~uperisy development
work on the claims of the Northwestern
Oh Company near the head of Powder
r.ver, seventy five miles from the present
terminus of the Fremont Elkhorn & Mis-.
souri, Valley railroad. This corporation is
operating with a capital of $40, 900, 900,
contributed for the most part by officials
of the Northwestern railway. During
the season drawing to a close they have
employed 100 men at prospecting and
developing. Recently they placed an i'm
mense consignment Of costly machinery
on several of their claims, and boring
1000 foot holes is now the occupation of
their force.
There are MANY indications of natural
gas in the Carbon and Fremont county
oil fields, but to this MI. Aggers attaches
but little importance, believing that oil
itself is the fuel of the future. This pro.
duct can be piped hundreds of miles,
whereas the natural gas cannot be trans
ported more than seventy-fve miles.
I'm the Wyoming fields" continued
the enthusiast, we have the surface indi-
cations, the deposit walls, and the oil
itself in better form than in Pennsylvania.
The kerosene produced will be of better
quality than any brand of that article at
present on the market. Ii has already
been demonstrated that the lubricants to
be found in inexhaustible quantities are
superior to all others. In manipulating
the residium there will be enormou
profits. Unlike the refuse of the Penn
s~ylvania wells, it will not be transformed
into naptha and benzine. In its crude
state it can be used as fuel. By a new
process gas which will be sold for twenty
five cents per 1000 feet will be manufac-
tured from the debris. | venture the as
sertion that within a few years Carbon
county oil and gas will be used as fuel in
Laramie county smelters. 1t could be
easily piped from the Poison Spider or
Powder river fields to the Hartville copper
and iron mines"
What have the prospectors found %
inquired the reporter.
invariably flowing wells at depths
varying with the formation of the coun-
try. The Wyoming and Colorado COM
pany are down 100 feet at Poison Spi-
der, and will probably descend 200 or 300
feet more before the oil gushes to the sur.
face. Where 1 am operating at present
the black, thick, sticky fluid appears at
the surface, when the drills reach a depth
of 800 or 900 feet"
You of course expect that the rail
road will be built through the oil re-
gions2''
The company could find no country
on earth which offered better inducements
for the construction of a line. In addi-
ton to the extensive oil feel Is there are
coal beds as large as New Jersey, and
gold and silver mines. 1 am positive
that the Northwestern will tap this region
next year."
rs there much land open to entry in
that region2"
Not a great deal, though anyone de-
string a claim can locate one, with the
probability of making a fortune. 1t is
quite remarkable that outsiders, among
them foreigners, own more prospects, pro.
portionately than Wyoming people,:
Pimples, boils and other humors are
liable to appear when the blood gets